EMM News Explorer: Central Bank

Obama [-said]: I have determined that additional sanctions are warranted, particularly in light of the deceptive practices of the Central Bank of Iran and other Iranian banks to conceal transactions of sanctioned parties, the deficiencies in Iran’s anti- money laundering regime and the weaknesses in its implementation, and the continuing and unacceptable risk posed to the international financial system by Iran’s activities,

bloomberg 07-FEB-12

Obama [-said]: I have determined that additional sanctions are warranted, particularly in light of the deceptive practices of the Central Bank of Iran and other Iranian banks to conceal transactions of sanctioned parties, the deficiencies in Iran's anti-money laundering regime and the weaknesses in its implementation

rt 06-FEB-12

Obama [-said]: I have determined that additional sanctions are warranted, particularly in light of the deceptive practices of the Central Bank of Iran and other Iranian banks to conceal transactions of sanctioned parties, the deficiencies in Iran’s anti-money laundering regime and the weaknesses in its implementation, and the continuing and unacceptable risk posed to the international financial system by Iran’s activities,

bloomberg 06-FEB-12

news 06-FEB-12

Obama [-said]: I have determined that additional sanctions are warranted, particularly in light of the deceptive practices of the Central Bank of Iran and other Iranian banks to conceal transactions of sanctioned parties, the deficiencies in Iran's anti-money laundering regime and the weaknesses in its implementation, and the continuing and unacceptable risk posed to the international financial system by Iran's activities,

jrep 06-FEB-12

Petraeus [-said]: it remains to be seen whether that continues. It appears that Saudi Arabian production is ramping up and can fill some of the demand that might have been met by Iranian exports now that there are the sanctions on the Central Bank of Iran,

trust 31-JAN-12

David-West [-said]: Jonathan suffered a greater loss because he is the president and commander-in-chief. If the chief executive has told the world that without buying petrol at N141 per litre, the Nigerian economy would collapse, and his position echoed by the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria ,CBN, and his ministers and they have come down to N97, it means that the N141 figure they earlier quoted was wrong. Otherwise, the chief executive of Nigeria would have stuck to N141. It means that the first premise was wrong and

newswatchngr 27-JAN-12

Clark [-said]: Central banks realised a long time ago that if a CCP goes bust, they will have to stand by to resolve the mess. Agreeing a resolution process for CCPs remains the key issue,

euractiv 25-JAN-12

Catherine Ashton [said:]: We will be discussing and finalising additional sanctions, particularly focused on the Central Bank and on oil exports. But I do want to again reiterate that this is part of trying to get a twin-track approach. The pressure of sanctions is designed to try to make sure that Iran takes seriously our request to come to the table and meet.

euronews 23-JAN-12

Attali [-said]: The Central Bank has spent more money saving the euro than the American Central Bank [Federal Reserve] spent on saving the dollar.

rfi 20-JAN-12

Toner [ said]: My reaction is, we’re engaged with all our partners and allies about this new legislation regarding the Central Bank of Iran. We’re going to continue to talk to folks as we move forward. This is a process. We’re trying to encourage governments around the world to decrease their ties to Iranian petroleum and to the Central Bank of Iran. And those talks are ongoing,

dawn 18-JAN-12

Yaalon [-said]: France and Britain understand that the sanctions must be strengthened, in particular against the Iranian Central Bank,

news24 16-JAN-12

Juergen Stark [-told]: Don't ask too much of the Central Bank,

eubusiness 17-DEC-11

Mario Draghi [said:]: The hope is that fiscal discipline will encourage the European Central bank to step in next year to prop up the Eurozone's struggling economies. But the bank's chief remains noncommittal

channelnewsasia 15-DEC-11

Mark Kirk [ said]: Moving forward, the Congress will need to be more vigilant than ever before in holding the administration's feet to the fire to collapse the Central Bank of Iran and force international financial institutions to choose between doing business in the U.S. and doing business in Iran,

AP 13-DEC-11

Kirk [-said]: significant financial transaction with the Central Bank of Iran.

dailymail 02-DEC-11

Kirk [ said]: The Central Bank of Iran is the primary bankroller of Iran's global terror network, its nuclear program and other illicit activities,

cnn 02-DEC-11

Cohen [-said]: It is more important than ever that we work together with the international community to increase the financial pressure on Iran, including through an effective, well-designed, well-targeted strategy to further isolate the Central Bank of Iran,

nowlebanon 01-DEC-11

Mann [-said]: There are various ways in which we can increase the pressure -- [what] the British did involving the [Iranian] Central Bank, for example,

rferl 28-NOV-11

Chavez [-said]: It's coming to the place it never should have left, the vaults of the Central Bank of Venezuela, not the bank of London or the bank of the United States,

nzherald 26-NOV-11

Chavez [-said]: It's coming to the place it never should have left. ... The vaults of the Central Bank of Venezuela, not the bank of London or the bank of the United States,

iol 26-NOV-11

Chavez [-said]: The gold is returning to where it was always meant to be: the vaults of the Central Bank of Venezuela,

javno 26-NOV-11

Perry [ said]: When you sanction the Iranian Central Bank, that will shut down that economy,

voanews 23-NOV-11

Geithner [ said]: If you are a financial institution anywhere in the world and you engage in any transaction involving Iran's Central Bank or any other Iranian bank operating inside or outside Iran, then you are at risk of supporting Iran's illicit activities, its pursuit of nuclear weapons, its support for terrorism and its efforts to deceive responsible financial institutions, and to evade sanctions,

chinadaily 22-NOV-11

Obama [-said]: And today we have taken the next significant step to escalate the pressure by ... identifying for the first time, the entire Iranian banking sector -- including the Central Bank of Iran -- as a threat to governments or financial institutions that do business with Iranian banks,

upi 22-NOV-11

Kirk [-said]: The Central Bank of Iran is a terrorist bank actively engaged in illicit activities and I welcome the Administration's decision to put the world on notice. Now we need to move forward with bipartisan legislation to collapse this terrorist bank and stop Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons before it's too late,

reuters 21-NOV-11

Kenny [says:]: The Central Bank is not seeking the power to exercise close regulatory control over retail interest rates at this time given this could absolve banks of their responsibility to price risk accurately.

independent 15-NOV-11

Chavez [-said]: This is a healthy decision! We're going to start to bring back our gold to the Central Bank,

ghanaweb 28-SEP-11

Stark [-cited]: It is a fallacy to think that loose monetary policy can solve the large structural problems we are facing. Central banks must not become the victims of their own success and should not become overburdened.

news 25-SEP-11

Geithner [-said]: What's very damaging is not just seeing the divisiveness in the debate over strategy in Europe but the ongoing conflict between countries and the [European] Central Bank,

aljazeera 17-SEP-11

Geithner [-said]: What's very damaging is not just seeing the divisiveness in the debate over strategy in Europe but the ongoing conflict between countries and the 1/8European 3/8 Central Bank,

channelnewsasia 17-SEP-11

Trichet [-said]: Central banks stand ready to provide liquidity to banks as required,

economictimes 12-SEP-11

Kirk [-said]: We should now move beyond this step to the one recommended in August by 91 Senators: collapse the Central Bank of Iran,

economictimes 09-SEP-11

William Hague [said:]: I am delighted to announce that today the RAF delivered 280m Libyan dinars to the Central Bank of Libya in Benghazi. The banknotes will be used to pay the wages of Libyan public sector employees, including nurses, doctors, teachers and police officers; provide support for those on social security who have not been paid for a number of months; provide aid for refugees displaced by the conflict; pay for medicines and subsidies for food supplies; and will be transferred to commercial banks in order to make cur

fco 01-SEP-11

William Hague [said:]: I am delighted to announce that the RAF delivered 280 million Libyan dinars to the Central Bank of Libya in Benghazi.

independent 01-SEP-11

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala [said:]: Nigeria will reduce recurrent expenditure by at least one per cent a year in the next four years, which would bring it down to 70 per cent of the budget by 2014. Recurrent spending accounts for 74 per cent of the country’s N4.5 trillion budget. The minister said she favoured the Central Bank’s policy of pegging the naira to the dollar to provide stability for businesses, and promised to work with Governor Lamido Sanusi to have an exchange rate that

vanguardngr 25-AUG-11

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala [said:]: Nigeria will reduce recurrent expenditure by at least one per cent a year in the next four years, which would bring it down to 70 per cent of the budget by 2014. Recurrent spending accounts for 74 per cent of the country's N4.5 trillion budget. The minister said she favoured the Central Bank's policy of pegging the naira to the dollar to provide stability for businesses, and promised to work with Governor Lamido Sanusi to have an exchange rate that

allafrica 25-AUG-11

Eugen Weinberg [ said]: Central banks around the world need to buy hundreds of tons a year,

arabtimes 21-AUG-11

Chavez [-said]: I agree Nelson. We're going to bring that gold to our Central Bank,

economictimes 19-AUG-11

Chavez [-said]: We're going to start to bring back our gold to the Central Bank,

AP 18-AUG-11

David Cohen [stated that:]: the activities of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) have been, and continue to be, a focus of the Treasury Department. Treasury has noted previously that the CBI and Iranian commercial banks have requested that their names be removed from international payment messages to make it more difficult for intermediary financial institutions to determine the true parties to the transaction, and we remain concerned that the CBI may be facilitating transactions for sanctioned Iranian banks.

wsj 08-AUG-11

Noonan [ said]: The publication of the Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011 represents a significant further step in the reform of financial regulation in ,

independent 28-JUL-11

Noonan [ said]: The publication of the Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2011 represents a significant further step in the reform of financial regulation in Ireland. The changes introduced by the Bill will underpin an assertive, risk-based model of regulation supported by a credible threat of enforcement,

irishtimes 28-JUL-11

Tigran Sargsyan [ said]: The government is conducting a detailed study on capital flows and the country's balance. The Central Bank implements that function professionally. Of course, there are certain cases when our compatriots don't build factories in Armenia, but abroad, even though they make money in Armenia. On the other hand, leading a liberal policy, we can't set restrictions against Armenian businessmen. We must take into account that businessmen must diversify their risks and this is something that is in the country's inte

a1plus 22-JUL-11

Kiir [-said]: South Sudan's Central Bank Governor Elijah Malok told Reuters, adding the currency was already being used on Juba's streets. South Sudan's new currency is being exchanged at a one-to-one rate with the existing Sudanese pound. Malok has estimated it would take between one to three months to replace the pounds in circulation now. Meanwhile South Sudan's President Salva Kiir ordered government officials to repatriate funds, amid concerns about rampant corruption in the world's youngest nation. I want to since

kuwaittimes 18-JUL-11

Kudrin [-added that]: But the Central Bank holds the position – not infrequently reasonable, in my view, – that foreign rating agencies are stricter whereas our agencies are often puppet institutions, though this stereotype is disappearing

rt 14-JUL-11

Tigran Sargsyan [ said]: Armenia has taken serious steps, and we are certain that the RA Central Bank's finance monitoring center currently corresponds to the best international standards. The Armenian authorities have always paid much attention to money-laundering issues, and Armenia has always had a good reputation from that angle,

a1plus 12-JUL-11

Kudrin [-said]: to be inexpedient and wrong. The Central Bank and the Deposit Insurance Agency have prepared a scheme, which was agreed with me, under which VTB will have to take up the main burden for loan recovery. VTB will have to consolidate the share package to 75 percent and recapitalize the bank,

rian 01-JUL-11

Dvorkovich [-said]: This is a prerogative of the Central Bank but I expect the trend of decreasing investment in U.S. dollars to continue,

irishsun 29-JUN-11

		People and OrganisationsEnglish
		RSS feed for this entity
		Daily News Analysis, across languages and over time